St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-07


little revenue officer or United States mar
shall shall DO kept in Office under the civil
service rules, and right where they are doing
IL there are Il thousand women and five thou
sand children being evicted and turned out
of their houses and homes by this damnable
liquor trnihc. Yet nothing said about civil
service reform to keep them in their house
Out upon craftsmanship like that. Don't
make 1t a national issue, they say;
let us make it local issue and
when you get to LEGAL issue you
will see it, A gang of these old moss
backs sitting around and whiting on white
pine and considering how to save the liber-
ties of the nation and protect the liberties of
the people. know them. Go up to one of
them and say To him, colonel, judge. major,
ex-justicc OF the pence, what do you think
about prohibition, don't you see how
whisky is drenohing or county or city; how
II Is keeping the courts to run the greater
part of the year; taking men away from the
carpenter bench, mercantile office, banks
and railroad TO try criminals!
TERRIBLE RAvAGKs
ii Is making in this community and don't
you think it would be wiser and better and
more human and Christian policy to stop
these ravages at once by prohibition. No!
mol no! don't talk about prohibition to me.
Why noty ''Itdestroys personal liberty" And
the old hound he never has had u breath of
personal liberty since he went into politics
and sold out to the saloons [Applause.l If
you would just take him out behind
some bar-room and pull down his collar
You could see where the saloon collar and
and the chains of the devil had wore the hair
off his neck-just like off n darkey's dog.
Then YOU talk about liberty. Better get a
little liberty before he talks about it, Find
out what il is like. Another crowd says:
"Must not have prohibition, because that is
Il sumptuary law; it is against the policy and
genius of our institutions to pass s,,mpt,i-
airy law Especially hear some old
red-nosed bull head Democrat talking
that way. Old Democrats down in
Kentucky that live and breathe on whisky
passed platform yesterday i'll which they
said they thought there was enough laws of
general application, and local effect on the
laws of The statute books of the country
already. Fixed it up SO nobody would
keepers understand. Too many laws on the
statute books already having local effect.
Yes on the bTeWericS and
DIsTILLERIEs OF KENTUCKY.
Thank God that argument can't be used
any more in Minnesota, Georgia nor Ken
lucky, nor anywhere else, for the congress of
the United States with Republican votes in
the senate and Democratic votes in the house.
passed last session the only genuine, thor
ough-bred sumptuary law ever passed, and
Democratic president signed it, and the whole
country said hurrah. That was the Oleomar
garine law. [Clapping and applause Every
body said it was all right. Why? Because
they said we need protection Our health,
our bodies need protection from bogus but,
ter and we need a national law to protect us
from bogus butter. And they passed the
sumptuary law and the whole country ap-
plauded it My only objection to their be-
they began on butter instead of beer and
brandy and whisky. / will tell you what is
the matter. ] am not so much afraid about
Oleumargarine; can stand it to be fooled by
the butter. can better afford to be choked
to death on axle grease even than to be
-drenched to death on liquor. Down here in
Ohio last summer / run across big
contingent of these brothers from
Germany. They had organized a
thatg They said that is an association we
have got up for our own protection. / said
amt much on Dutch, but used to be pho
nographer, and that sounds to me as if 1t was
a league for human wreckage and free he'll in
this country They said: mo, league for
right and freedom said: What rights
are you deprived of and what freedom you
don't enjoy that we Americans don't enjoy;
where have you been pinched:' We find it
is necessary to have something for our own
protection, and we have a platform. And
when they hauled it ont it had two blanks
Opposition to all whisky legislation, and the
other opposition to all the
SUNDAY LEGISLATION.
See how those two planks fit? Go right
along together like they were tongued and
grooved. have never seen the Christian
Sabbath in danger anywhere i'll this country,
except from this beer guzzling, whisky drink
ing crowd. Let me give you another truth
that IL true as anything short Of the word of
God itself, and that is if you Americans ever
expect to maintain the integrity of our Sab
bath. we have got to do away with liquor and
its devotees in this country. They said:
You have got your notions over here
i'll America all wrong, all tangled
up. told them, you needn't have come if
you hadn't wanted to. [Applause.1 And if
you can have it any straighter than that back
hn <rnir \,
talk about Strengthening us out on this sub
ject in order that you may have free whisky
and make general debauched holiday out
of our Sabbath, reminds me of the drunken
Dutchman who heard Il lot of boys practicing
for the formation of brass band. They had
got a lot of horns together, and that was their
first practice night, and if any of you have ever
lived anywhere within ten blocks of such
They were blowing away with all their might
and main. He heard them, and be had some
music i'll his soul and plenty of beer in his
stomach. lie concluded he would go up and
see about it. He poked his head in the door
of that place and said: 'Dees is we're you'v,
got de brass pand, amt it? They said: Yes,
what you want? dink gone ub and join
dot pand. They said: Are you a musician.
OF course l am musicianer, Won of der pest
in der town. They asked him what piece he
try me out: play anything. They brought
out one of these
BIG BASS INSTRUMENTS
with hundred crooks in it, and section pis-
tons On the side, and four feet high, and said
can you play thatg my vriend, 1 tell you
yust watts der matter; if 1 feel pervectly
healthy, yust put dot horn to my mouth and
plow him out straight" Great applause and
laughter told them down there and l tell
you here when it comes to you fellows trying
to straighten us out on that line, you have
got to be a little healthier and have little
more wind before you can do it. More
1 pe1gona and bert appa%rsse ; Talk about
try where personal liberty is reg
ulated by law. and where some regard is yet
paid to righteousness and truth and the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. And, brother, if you
are to maintain it and improve it and bring it
back to the old landmarks, we had better be
up and doing, i'll order that they may not at
last blow us out straight on this subject and
damn us. The man who teaches you that
your personal liberty. is in danger because
the army of Christ, that man would
not know personal liberty if he saw
1t coming down the Mississippi river
servant of corruption; doing the devils
work, who is his father. Another class of
men, they say: well, what do you want to
go and join the church for; it will take away
make a profession Of Jesus Christ? You
don't know anything about Christ and are
just giving yourself into the hands of a lot of
fandtical religionists and giving up your lib
erty and manhood You have heard them
talk that way. They say: ''Come over
and join our lodge" You say, what
do you want me to join your
lodge for? ''Oh, we have fellowship and
love and truth; if man will just be in fell
lowship and love and truth with all men he
will be just as good as any man claiming to
be a Christian" Another man says: Join
our Masonic lodge; If you will stick to the
PRINCIPLES OF MASONRY
you will be one one of the best men in the
country, and carrying forward the principles
of Jesus Christ almost as perfectly, and prob
ably with more liberty and more evidence of
manhood than if you was a Christian"
Another says: Join the knights of Pythias;
lence and charity" And so they 60. We
have Il whole lot of LODGES in Ills corntr,.